>>>Right. And certainly now with the new linear allocator the Xserver can >>>manage the whole lot. >> >>Does the X server make any promises about preserving the contents of the >>fb memory? EG, if there's a VT switch, will the contents be saved >>somehow? > > > No. No preservation is done. We need to invalidate everything.
Thinking along the lines of pbuffers, and giving each process it's own framebuffer... What if Linux console were modified to use DRM for it's hardware access? This would allow all of the framebuffers to be managed through a single DRM driver. Now it would be possible to see the VT's on the main windowing display as well as switch to them. Also if video were being streamed to a window it could go full screen just by adding it to the VT list. Would it be interesting to assign each GUI process a VT and then allow compositing everything into a GUI or alternatively seeing each VT/process standalone? ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
